Hi, I’m Justyna
— a visual artist, design researcher, and project manager based in Copenhagen. My work sits at the intersection of creative practice, cultural research, and institutional collaboration.
Over fifteen years I’ve moved between universities, research labs, and EU-funded projects across Poland, Denmark, and Europe, building expertise in design management, creative facilitation, and the emerging territory where art meets technology.
Since 2024 I’ve been project manager and researcher on XTREME, a €8 million Horizon Europe project working at the frontier of XR (extended reality) and AI in cultural production. Together with 14 international partners including MUNCH Museum Oslo and the Finnish National Opera and Ballet, I have navigated high artistic ambitions, fast-paced technology development and tight production pipelines.
Exploring the in-between
I’ve always been someone who works at the edges of things, bridging fields that don’t usually talk to each other and finding out what happens when they do. First it was design and business. Now art and technology.
My interdisciplinary profile allows me to navigate between different worlds, bridging artists and scientists, creative intuition and institutional logic, research and practice. Most of my best work has happened because I was the person in the room who could hold both sides.
My path has its own in-betweens: from Poland, through Sweden, to Denmark, and from business school to design, art studio and research lab. Along the way I developed my own art-based methods, workshops that turn the way artists work into tools for reflection and change, and I still use them when I bring people together around new technologies.
What I bring
Research: qualitative and practice-based research on art, design and new technologies, including 25+ in-depth interviews with artists, curators and producers across Europe. Read more about my research.
Teaching: over ten years of university teaching in Poland and Denmark, from design thinking and service design to creative facilitation and qualitative methods. Elected Best Teacher of the Year by students at Kozminski University, 2017.
Making projects happen: project manager of an €8M Horizon Europe consortium, team lead on CAPE (NordForsk), and member of Climaborough (EU, 28 partners). I know how to write the grant, keep the consortium together and get the work on stage.
Languages: Polish (native), English and Danish (fluent), Swedish (passive).
My art
I’ve been making art seriously since 2018 — and it has become as central to my identity as the research. I work primarily in acrylics and soft pastels, often with mixed media layering to build texture and depth. My themes move between abstract landscapes and the human figure: faces, bodies, the edges of emotion and movement.
Current exhibitions:
- Gallery Lowlands, Copenhagen, Denmark (2027, upcoming)
- Villa Gertrud, Kolding, Denmark, permanent exhibition (since 2023)
Past exhibitions:
- Gallery Lowlands, Copenhagen, Denmark (March 2025)
- NordVest Ølbar, Copenhagen, Denmark (January-April 2024)
- Vielgut studio, Kolding, Denmark (June-December 2023)
- Kolding Kommune’s Social- og sundhedsforvaltning, Kolding, Denmark (December 2023)
- Den Gamle Posthuset, Kolding, Denmark (September-December 2023)
- Bæredygtighedshuset, Kolding, Denmark (November 2022)
- Vielgut studio, Pop-up store, Kolding, Denmark (August- December 2021)
- Galleri Sønderborg, Denmark (December 2020 – January 2021)
- Artists of the Year 2020 exhibition, Kolding Storcenter, Denmark (June – August 2020)
Interested in exhibiting my art? Get in touch hi@justyna.dk
